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Los Angeles-born artist Elizabeth McGrath has always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident than in her work. Inspired by the relationship between the natural world and the detritus of consumer culture, she brings forth a new cavalcade of creatures from the darker corners of the streets, the city, the imagination. It is this melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering specimens of nature that make up her intricate body of work. Today she lives in Downtown LA with her hairless dogs Blue and King Tut, and her Husband Morgan Slade. They play together in the band Miss Derringer.
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Liz McGrath
Posted by: Liz McGrath

Jarred Gold and Joshua Petker Fashion show!

The event took place July 30th at Club Social Hollywood- it was a collaboration between Designer Jared Gold and artist Joshua Petker, two humans i really admire! So i was flattered when Jessicka asked me to help host the event along with a ton of other super cool hosts , DJ's and entertainers (see list at Jareds website ). As a host i was required to hang around and drink Mohito's, I thought that  could handle that! The only sucky thing was that i forgot to bring my camera with a flash so i only got really crappy photos of the event!!! I appologize in advance-
mayhem backstage


trays of PBR's mmmmmmm


me and Joshua


Giddle Partridge , Rodney Bingenhiemer & part of Dave
My sister Sara (in the middle) and friends Rachel and Sherrie (L-R)


the back of someone- i really like the colors


Punk rock legend Don Bolles and Morgan Slade

heres pics of the runway show, sorry again for the crappy photos, the clothes were really outstanding, the hair and make up was amazing ( byt Hairroin of course!) and the models were stunning !!! these photos really dont do them justice! check out Jared's site for better pics!






because my pics were so bad my friends sent a few over to me!
These are from Clint Catalyst who was part of the evenings Red Carpet Riot Squad, and an all around stand up guy! (even if his pants wont stand up with him!!)
LilyLuLay, BeanerLaRue Clint Catalyst, and  OlgaKay. Highly reccomedned- BeanerLaRue's videos "Twilight High School Musical" and "Deena's Diet"

these photos were taken by "CuriousJosh" Reiss.-thanks Josh!
Josie Cotton, Jared Gold (the man himself!) & Clint Catalyst


Clint and adorable Audrey Kitching


Clint, queen of all things sparkly- Tarina Tarantino, and her husband Alfonso Campos

Killsonic lost their pant somewhere in the crowd!


 this photo was sent by Miguel Jose  who was on very good behavior that night!
Morgan slade, me, artist Doug aka Plasticgod &  his super sweet girlfriend (im a jerk for not remembering her name!!) and Coleen Duffy of world famous Devil Doll (check them out she has the voice of an angle even if shes a devil!)

next up- Morgan Slade's closing art show party in crazy AZ- behind the scenes at the photoshoot!

thanks for reading this!!!

liz


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Tallulah
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written by Tallulah, August 03, 2009
Mojito's and PBR's just happen to be a few of my favorite drinks.
I would have loved to have been there - such amazing stuff.
Thanks for the post sweetness,

Oh, and I even learned something new, as I had no idea that Coleen dated Doug/Plasticgod (I only just learned who he was recently as well).

I was lucky to get to see Devil Doll preform during their last trip to Little Rock & they are playing my friends tattoo convention in Tulsa this Halloween weekend. Good music indeed.

xo
momatella
If Jared Gold were straight . . .
written by momatella, August 03, 2009
I'd kiss him upside the head, like a mama do! I adore him--he changed my life from humdrum housewifery in sweaty pony tail and polyester to Attitude, "sellin"'it", letting most of my fears and inhibitions fly out the window, I even rose to the challenge and had some successful designs on hoodies, T-shirt contest, and providing books he used for inspiration and decoration. I did a little writing for him, made an altered book of his life, and Clint Catalyst said I was a real word slanger. I admire and am fascinated at this cool LA crowd of beauty and talent! The new Gold/Petker collaboration is artistically synergism at its best. Congratulations to all of you! smilies/grin.gif
Tallulah
Now I just feel silly.
written by Tallulah, August 04, 2009
Thanks for letting me know about the re-wording
(RE: the other little lady, not Coleen, dating Doug).
It was probably fine before and I just misunderstood.

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Oh, and I forgot to tell you how much I adored all the hair you had on smilies/wink.gif
Sarah Steffens
what a combo
written by Los Angeles Writing, October 28, 2009
This is quite possibly one of the funniest photo shoots ever....such an odd combo! The shots came out really great, though! Thanks for sharing!

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